08-07-2004, 09:15 PM
Even though it has been said, that any of us fans (with the technical staff) could create a Diablo 3, but I doubt that. The Problem imho is that a company that buys a developer that has one or more very high profile games usualy goes for maximum money without caring much about the past titles.
A very sad example for this is the command and conquer series. The past was made up of realy two seperate lines (Tiberum age and Red Alert time travel theme) but they had some things in common.
For one the gaming atmosphere started with the installation process (those eva briefings during install had this nice "welcome back" feeling) and there was at least a basic story beeing developed inbetween levels.
C & C Generals on the other hand: plain normal windows installation, only "story" in form of news clips (booooooooring). The realöy sad thing about this is that at least the Tiberium story line had plenty of romm for another part.
While I am not saying that Generals was a bad game I felt ripped of by the "Command and Conquer" part in the title as it did not only have nothing in common with the previous parts but simply felt rushed onto the market without the love for detail, story and funny little easter eggs.
To come back to Diablo 3 I fear that something similar may happen to this series as well and I would realy hate that.
Summing up I would say I'd rather have no Diablo 3 then one that does not continue the great fantasy / gothic feeling.
Long live "Take heed and bear witness to the truth that lie herein..." :)
A very sad example for this is the command and conquer series. The past was made up of realy two seperate lines (Tiberum age and Red Alert time travel theme) but they had some things in common.
For one the gaming atmosphere started with the installation process (those eva briefings during install had this nice "welcome back" feeling) and there was at least a basic story beeing developed inbetween levels.
C & C Generals on the other hand: plain normal windows installation, only "story" in form of news clips (booooooooring). The realöy sad thing about this is that at least the Tiberium story line had plenty of romm for another part.
While I am not saying that Generals was a bad game I felt ripped of by the "Command and Conquer" part in the title as it did not only have nothing in common with the previous parts but simply felt rushed onto the market without the love for detail, story and funny little easter eggs.
To come back to Diablo 3 I fear that something similar may happen to this series as well and I would realy hate that.
Summing up I would say I'd rather have no Diablo 3 then one that does not continue the great fantasy / gothic feeling.
Long live "Take heed and bear witness to the truth that lie herein..." :)
I am not trying to post like a Wanker but my english has a pretty strong krautish influence.
Feel free to flame the content but give me some slack on spelling an grammar, thanks
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There's no place like 127.0.0.1